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In this Nov. 21, 2018, photo, a man walks near the logo of Nissan Motor Co. at its Global Headquarters in Yokohama, near Tokyo. Japanese media say Tokyo prosecutors charged Nissan former chairman Carlos Ghosn on Monday, Dec. 10, 2018, with underreporting his income by 5 billion yen ($44 million) over five years, with another executive and the company.

Tokyo prosecutors have charged Nissan's former chairman Carlos Ghosn, another executive and the automaker itself for allegedly underreporting income.

The charges imposed Monday involve allegations Ghosn's pay was underreported by about 5 billion yen ($44 million) in 2011-2015. The prosecutors said earlier that the allegations were the reason for Ghosn's arrest on Nov. 19.

The prosecutors issued statements also outlining new allegations Monday against Ghosn and Greg Kelly, the other executive. The fresh allegations are of underreporting another 4 billion yen ($36 million) in 2016-2018. Nissan as a company was not mentioned in the latest allegations.

Prosecutors unveiled the full statement in court on Thursday against "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett, who is accused of fabricating a racist and homophobic attack against himself in a bid for publicity.

(Published Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019)

Some kind of action by the prosecutors had been expected because the detention period allowed for the allegations disclosed earlier was to end on Monday.

Nissan Motor Co. confirmed the charges against it in a statement and vowed to strengthen its governance and compliance.

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(Published Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019)

Ghosn was ousted as Nissan chairman and Kelly lost his representative director title following their arrests, but they both remain on Nissan's board pending a shareholder's meeting.

Ghosn, 64, was sent to Nissan by its partner Renault SA of France in 1999. He led a dramatic turnaround of the near-bankrupt Japanese automaker. But Ghosn's star-level pay drew attention since executives in Japan tend to be paid far less than their international counterparts.

Only Ghosn's attorneys and embassy officials from Lebanon, France and Brazil, where he has citizenship, have been allowed to visit him.

It is typical in the Japanese legal system for there to be little access to comment by suspects. Prosecutors have also said little.

Shin Kukimoto, deputy chief prosecutor at the Tokyo District Prosecutor's Office, declined to say if the suspects were rejecting the allegations. He said Ghosn and Kelly were being detained because they are considered flight risks.

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(Published Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019)

"We do not have such a scenario. There is no such thing and we do not force suspects to make confessions to fit the story," Kukimoto said.

Meanwhile, the Securities and Exchange Commission said it had filed criminal complaints against Ghosn, Nissan and Kelly. A commission official said Monday that Nissan, Ghosn and Kelly were suspected of falsifying reports on millions of dollars' worth of Ghosn's income.